Routine anaesthesia ward-based patient visits in surgery: 1-year outcomes of the TRACE randomized clinical trial
Routine postoperative anaesthesia ward visits of patients did not improve clinical, functional, and QoL outcomes. A substantial proportion of patients still experienced health-related limitations in daily life 1 year after surgery. In conclusion, an early postoperative intervention with postoperative anaesthesia visits in the ward after non-cardiac surgery had no effect on 30-day or 1-year clinical outcome. Remarkably, TRACE shows that compared with data sampled 10 years ago, 1-year mortality has not improved in the Netherlands. At 1 year, functional recovery or QoL showed little improvement compared with baseline. Importantly, a substantial number of patients still reported incomplete recovery and problems that limit QoL, which indicate that there is still room for improvement.
Authors
- Frank van Dijk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2526-7276)
- Benedikt Preckel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4412-9183)
- Valérie M. Smit-Fun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5528-853X)
- Myra Rinia
- Wolfgang Bühre (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8296-9426)
- A. Jwair
- M. Theunissen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6434-3334)
- W. W. GLAS
- Jan Geurts (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0973-572X)
- Peter G. Noordzij (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7115-8249)
- Fatih Koca (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6824-1017)
- Linda M. Posthuma
- Christa Boer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7781-6951)
- Iris Lange (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6251-8978)
- Dianne de Korte‐de Boer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4688-8300)
- Tijn P. W. J. M. Bouw
- Tor Damén (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0188-0911)
- Markus W. Hollmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8248-0244)
- A G C L Wensing
- Annick Stolze (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5097-1644)
- J S Breel
- Bas in ‘t Veld
- Sander M. J. van Kuijk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2796-729X)
- Roos van Gorp
- J.P. van Roy
- Jens P Hering
- A. Werger
- Gert‐Jan Scheffer
Institutions
- Albert Schweitzer Hospital (GA)
- Maastricht University Medical Centre (NL)
- University Medical Center Utrecht (NL)
- Albert Schweitzer Ziekenhuis (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- British journal of surgery
- Published
- 2025-03-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znaf019
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.39
Funders
- European Commission
- ZonMw
- European Society of Anaesthesiology
- Interreg